After a year spent 'roughing it' with alternate vendor technologies, Traenk is returning to his Microsoft home.

Ok, this might be foolish, but I'm tired of Chrome and all kinds of Alternate Universe technologies. As I write this, I'm backing up my music in preparation of installing and running the Windows 8 preview. I also want one of those new surface tablets--Can you hook me up?

I could bore you with my story of 'Odysseus travels with his Chrome browser' stories, but that's a bit boring. How about my iPad, my WIFE's iPad, and my fun with it? The Android tablet I got for free sure was worth every penny I paid for it (it was free, remember). Right up until the time I used its oddball Application manager to try to get a text editor. GREAT! If I wanted a web browsing viewer, it's great. But if I thought to type out some text? Not so much.

Sure, it's a great thing to run from Pocket PC to these new, larger tablets, and then you hit the data input wall. No handwriting recog. No voice recog, proven tools I used to great effect on the Pocket PC. World Trade Federation (wtf), is it so hard to provide abilities Microsoft has given the world for more than a decade???